Gabino Rodríguez

Gabino Rodríguez

Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez was born in Durango, Mexico in 1983. He has a master’s degree in theater from the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (AHK). His work consists of explorations around fiction. His projects take their final form as plays, texts, films and radio productions.

Known For

17 titles
1
Sin Nombre

Sin Nombre

2009 · 1h 36m · Movie

A young Honduran girl and a Mexican gangster are united in a journey across the U.S. border.

7.5
2
Rudo y Cursi

Rudo y Cursi

2008 · 1h 43m · Movie

Two siblings are rivals in the world of professional soccer.

6.7
3
We Are the Flesh

We Are the Flesh

2016 · 1h 19m · Movie

After wandering a ruined city for years in search of food and shelter, two siblings find their way into one of the last remaining buildings. Inside, they find a man who will make them a dangerous offer to survive the outside world.

4.7
4
You're Killing Me Susana

You're Killing Me Susana

2016 · 1h 40m · Movie

"Me Estas Matando Susana" takes us on Eligio's quest to find and recover his wife, Susana, who without a word, left Mexico City behind for a writer's conference held in the chilly U.S. heartland.

6.4
5
Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You

Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You

2001 · 1h 30m · Movie

The history of friendship of two females teenagers and how it's cracked up by misinformation about sexual education and violence against women.

7.1
6
Abel

Abel

2010 · 1h 22m · Movie

About a peculiar young boy who, as he blurs reality and fantasy, takes over the responsibilities of a family man in his father's absence.

6.8
7
Tragic Jungle

Tragic Jungle

2020 · 1h 36m · Movie

To escape an arranged marriage, a woman flees into the depths of the Mayan jungle, where untamed nature merges the human and the supernatural.

6.0
8
I Am Happiness on Earth

I Am Happiness on Earth

2014 · 2h 2m · Movie

Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, mixing the objective reality with the processes of the artistic creation. The story he is filming flounders with his daily life, until his world is trapped in the lens o...

4.5
9
La 4ª Compañía

La 4ª Compañía

2017 · 1h 49m · Movie

Zambrano is a juvenile offender that when arrives to the penitentiary only longs to join a football team, Los Perros. Such illusion ends up involving him with the organized crime under the auspices of the authority, because the te...

6.2
10
Son of Monarchs

Son of Monarchs

2021 · 1h 37m · Movie

A Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown, nestled in the majestic butterfly forests of Michoacán. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his hybrid identity, sparking a personal metamo...

6.5
11
Fauna

Fauna

2021 · 1h 10m · Movie

A pair of estranged offspring visit their parents in an abandoned Mexican village.

6.4
12
One for the Road

One for the Road

2010 · 1h 30m · Movie

Friday night in Mexico City... guided by three different ways of understanding the world, 20-year-olds, Juan, Rodrigo and Christian live after-hour adventures of friendship, love, and respect in a city marked by social differences.

6.3
13
Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits

2012 · 1h 43m · Movie

Drifting from fiction to documentary, Greatest Hits tells the story of Emilio, a man in his fifties who shows up at the family home after fifteen years of absence. His wife and his twenty-eight year old son receive him with bitter...

5.8
15
Minotaur

Minotaur

2015 · 53m · Movie

A wraithlike fantasy that observes three thirtysomethings as they sleep, dream, read and receive visitors in a Mexico City apartment.

5.2
16
Tormentero

Tormentero

2017 · 1h 20m · Movie

The last days in the life of an old forgotten local hero.

6.4
17
Killing Strangers

Killing Strangers

2013 · 1h 3m · Movie

A series of auditions is taking place in a museum-like living room. Various men improvise or deliver prepared lines, rehearse gestures and slogans, aim guns, and collapse as if mortally wounded. The theme of revolution is repeated...

4.9